Students: A Dignified Protest

Neatly arrayed in graveyard rows, the 435
thin white crosses ranged down the sloping mall in front of Bascom
Hall, the University of Wisconsin's main administration building. All
through the rainy afternoon a cortege of mock mourners shuffled past.
As they marched slowly up the hill, past a sign reading
BASCOM MEMORIAL CEMETERY, CLASS
OF 1968, the solemn students chanted: "Pray for the dead and the dead
will pray for you; pray for the dead."

The low-key protest was planned by a senior history major from
Washington, D.C., who hoped that the instant cemetery would symbolize
the fact that today's...